You can email documents, you can use a cloud service such as DropBox or you can use iOS file sharing - if you have an app that supports file sharing.

In order to edit and save documents on the iPad you must have an app that is compatible with the document or file that you want to transfer and save to the iPad. Documents are saved in the apps themselves.

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